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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 26, 2002Pratt County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT for Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2002, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pratt County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 120 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-309 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KDDC 261930
SVRDDC
KSC151-262015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
230 PM CDT WED JUN 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 230 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF SAWYER...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF PRATT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  CAIRO AT 255 PM CDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS,
  DAMAGING WIND GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR,



LAT...LON 3775 9898 3749 9898 3749 9852 3774 9851

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 3:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray40 min
Jun 26, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa32 min
Jun 26, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford27 min
Jun 26, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche31 min
Jun 26, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStafford38 min
Jun 26, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.